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| Umno members stomp on a cow's head to protest Hindu temple (Samsul Said) |
Dean Johns | Malaysiakini
12:01PM Apr 11, 2012
Barisan Nasional, it seems to me, has got itself trapped in a classic lose-lose situation.
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| Courtesy of Mob's Crib |
For example, as if it wasn't reprehensible enough to be responsible for the death of the innocent Teoh Beng Hock in the custody of its anti-corruption commission, BN proceeded to insult Malaysians' intelligence by staging an ‘inquest' that found his death to be due to "neither homicide nor suicide."
And now, in a further cold-blooded slap in the face to Teoh's bereaved family and friends, and to the outrage of the Malaysian people at large, the Attorney-General's Office has announced that three MACC officers allegedly involved in Teoh's death have no case to answer.
But it gets even more offensive than this.
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| Nation's sleaziest crook moonlights as the Attorney-General |
If the elevation of a figure as suspect as Gani Patail to the office of attorney-general isn't sufficiently insulting to the Malaysian people and the principle of justice, then I don't know what would be.
Devious and duplicitous
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| The most reviled & ridiculed home minister to date |
Hishammuddin, of course, is the minister in overall charge of Malaysia's insulting apologies for ‘law-enforcement' agencies, and thus ultimately responsible for the blackest blot on the BN regime's dark record, the deaths of Teoh Beng Hock and countless other ‘suspects' in fake ‘shoot-outs' and ‘accidents' in custody.
But as deeply offensive to all Malaysians as it has been to be handed Hishammuddin as their chief ‘protector', the most outrageous insult of all by BN to Malaysia and Malaysians was the appointment three years ago of Najib Abdul Razak as prime minister.
It would be difficult to show more contempt for the people than to so scorn their revulsion at the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Mongolian woman involved in the notorious Scorpene submarine scandal, as to elevate the defence minister suspected of involvement in these crimes to the nation's highest office.
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| No garland big enough to conceal the stench of insatiable greed (The Malaysian Insider) |
Yet that's precisely what BN did.
And the Malaysian people have had to live under the shadow of this deadly insult ever since.
And what an insult and an embarrassment it has been, and continues to be.
Having sworn on the Quran that he had nothing to do with the Scorpene submarines or Altantuya Shaariibuu affairs, Najib has not only presided over the continued extra-judicial killings of ‘suspects' like Teoh Beng Hock, but has further compounded these offences by contemptibly failing to press for their proper investigation.
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| Luxury coach trip with the fake Mentri Besar of Perak |
Then, as if determined to heap further insult on such injury to victims of his criminal regime, he's called on his BN collaborators and cronies to defend Putrajaya with still more "broken bodies" and "lost lives."
He's insulted the intelligence of every Malaysian by calling on them to have faith in his lying "1Malaysia" slogan, despite all the while betraying their desire for racial and religious harmony by covertly sponsoring hate-mongers like Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali and Utusan Malaysia.
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| Najib: "We will defend Putrajaya with our broken bodies..." Against whom? |
Daylight robberies
To grievous financial injuries to the people like the RM12-billion PKFZ scandal, the rape of Sarawak's resources by the Taib dynasty and dozens of other daylight robberies, he's added the insult of allowing these and other thieves get away scot free.
To the injury he's done to the nation through his own and his accomplices' profligacy with public money, he's added the insult of calling on Malaysians to tighten their belts and curb their personal spending.
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| Saiful Bukhari Azlan's infamous anus almost derailed Anwar's career (AFP) |
To the injury he inflicted on Anwar Ibrahim by subjecting him to a trial on yet another trumped-up sodomy charge, he added the insult of trying to further smear Anwar by permitting if not actually supporting the production and dissemination of the ‘Datuk T' sex tapes.
To the injury he's done Malaysia's international reputation through spending a fortune on fake documentaries for Bloomberg and the BBC and ludicrous PR campaigns on his own and his consort's images, he's added the insult of using an Israeli-owned PR company while posing as pro-Palestinian.
To the injury he does the Malaysian people by persisting in suppressing the news media by means of the pernicious Printing, Presses and Publications Act, he's added the insult of falsely pretending to promote press freedom and claiming that Malaysia's mendacious media are among the world's best.
Just as his doltish deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin has attempted to cover-up the injury that BN has inflicted on Malaysia's education system with the insulting claim that it is better than that of the US, UK or Germany.
And most unforgivably of all, as aware as you or me that he and his regime are utterly unelectable in a clean and fair contest, Najib is determined to keep doing the democratic process an injury by every traditional BN means - gerrymandering, roll-stacking, foreigner-registration, voter cloning, postal-vote manipulation and blatant bribery.
While simultaneously adding the insult of pretending to be a ‘transformer' and staging a phony inquiry into electoral ‘reforms' that he has no intention whatever of instituting.
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| Shahrizat & Najib: RM250 million worth of bull |
And in the process of announcing this move, he had the additional effrontery to declare that Shahrizat, in retaining her post as chief of Wanita Umno, "will assure a big win for the BN in the upcoming general election," and to add that "I dare say that the people are gradually coming back to us; their affection for us is rising.
To which all I can say is that, far from feeling renewed affection for Barisan Nasional, more and more Malaysians are affronted and offended by Najib and his accomplices' every word and deed. And thus the suggestion that this gang of crooks deserves even one more day in office, let along five more years, only adds yet another deadly insult to decades of unforgivable injury.
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| The Last Umno Emperor, Ah Jib Gor |
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